Description
Learn about common sources of workplace injuries and illness for warehouse workers and how you can improve worker safety.
With highly publicized investigations into warehouse worker safety and the COVID19 pandemic further complicating employers obligations to provide safe workplace, businesses with warehouses must be particularly diligent in safeguarding employees. This means protecting workers from the evolving hazards created by the ongoing health pandemic, as well as the wellknown hazards associated with material handling operations. This topic will help the persons responsible for ensuring worker safety by calling attention to recent issues which have become the focus of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and unions alike, and explaining the steps employers should be taking to address these issues in the warehouse setting. This material will also address the established and common causes of injury to workers engaged in material handling and storage, and discuss practices that can be implemented by employers to protect their employees and remain compliant with the laws governing warehouse safety.
Date: 2020-07-16 Start Time: 1:00 PM ET End Time: 2:30 PM ET
Learning Objectives
* You will be able to discuss the current safety issues confronting warehouse operations.
* You will be able to explain the recent activities of OSHA and other safety watchdogs in the material handling and storage area.
* You will be able to identify the common sources of workplace injuries and illness for warehouse workers.
* You will be able to recognize ways that your business can improve worker safety.